Julie Ham
Thematic Research Area
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Education
PhD, Monash University MSW, University of Toronto BSW, University of Victoria BA, University of British Columbia
About
Julie Ham’s research is grounded in academic-community collaborations that speak to priorities identified by migrant and minority communities, such as the dehumanization of domestic workers, harms produced by the anti-trafficking industry, the impact of social difference in sex work, the trajectory of migrant remittances, knowledge production and cultural production by migrants through participatory and visual methodologies. Her research on migration, labour, social difference and the criminology of mobility has been published in The British Journal of Criminology;Critical Social Policy; Culture, Health & Sexuality; Gender, Work & Organization; International Journal of Qualitative Methods; Sociology; Theoretical Criminology; and Work, Employment and Society.
For more information about her research, visit Mobile Methodologies and Migrant Knowledges .
Research
Current project: ‘Migrant Domestic Worker Creatives in Community’ (Principal Investigator), Partnership Engagement Grant (PEG), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), $23,300 CDN, 2023-2024.
Publications
Books
Yu, Y., Vicera, C. & Ham, J. with Migrant Writers of Hong Kong and Lensational. (2024). Ingat: An Anthology of Works by Migrant Domestic Worker Creatives in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Small Tune Press.
Ham, J. (2017). Sex Work, Immigration and Social Difference. Routledge.
Pickering, S. & Ham, J. (2015). The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration. London: Routledge.
Recent Journal Articles
Ham, J. (2024). Hypersexualisation and racialised erotic capital in sex work. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1-15.
Lapto, F. K., Chan, M. W., Lau, W. S., Souza, A., & Ham, J. (2024). At home in illegality: place-making practices in Hong Kong’s industrial buildings. Housing Studies, 1-26.
Gheorghiu, I. & Ham, J. (2022). Biographical work and the production of credibility in sex work interviews. The British Journal of Criminology, 63(1), 151–167.
Ham, J., Lin, V.W. & Sunuwar, M. (2022). Migrating methods in a pandemic: Virtual participatory video with migrants in Hong Kong. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 1–10.
Ham, J. & Ceradoy, A. (2022). “God blessed me with employers who don’t starve their helpers”: Food insecurity and dehumanization in domestic work. Gender, Work & Organization, 29(3), 922-937.
Ham, J. & Gheorghiu, I. (2020). Scripting pragmatic intimacies in sex work, migration and intimate-material exchanges. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 23(10), 1375–1389.
Ham, J. & Sunuwar, M. (2020). Experiments in enchantment: Domestic workers, upcycling and social change. Emotion, Space and Society, 37, 100715.
Ham, J. (2020). Rates, roses and donations: Naming your price in sex work. Sociology, 54(5), 953-968.
Ham, J. (2020). Using difference in intersectional research with im/migrant and racialized sex workers. Theoretical Criminology, 24(4), 551-567.
Awards
- British Journal of Criminology Radzinowicz Memorial Prize 2014 for ‘Hot pants at the border: Sorting sex work from trafficking’, co-authored with Sharon Pickering, British Journal of Criminology, 54(1): 2-19.